Police patrol-box.



PATENTED APR. 23, 1907. v

v. DOHERTY. POLICE PATROL BOX;

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 4, 1906.

INVENTUR. f/l/ "ii/Maw GEORGE V. DOHERTY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS POLICE PATROL-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 23, 1907.

Application filed August 4, 1906. Serial No- 329,185.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE V. DOHERTY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of difficulty in holding him, and especially is this the case where the patrol-box is in a por tion of the city inhabited by a rough element, the friends of the risoner often taking advantage of the fact tl fat the patrolman is busy in opening the box and telephoning to the station to attempt arescue of the prisoner, and in such cases the patrolman is often injured by the friends of the prisoner and said prisoner escapes. To overcome this difiiculty, I provide a means for attaching the prisoner to the patrol-box, said means preferably consisting of a pairof handcuffs which are attached to a movable locking member in the interior of the box by chains and are left inside the box attached to said chains, the door of the box being locked until the patrolman unlocks the box, removes one of the handcuffs, and snaps it on the prisoners wrist. When this has been accomplished, the patrolman can telephone at his leisure to the police-station, and it will be impossible for friends of the prisoner to take him away from the patrol-box. The patrolman is pro-' vided with a key to the door of the patrol box; but he has no key to the hand-culfs which are within the box, so that friends of the prisoner could not obtain a key from the patrolman to unlock the handcuif after it had once been snapped on the prisoners wrist. The key to unlock the handcuffs is in the possession of one of the officers who come to the assistance of the patrolman on the patrol-wagon.

It sometimes becomes desirable to take two prisoners into custody, in which case the atrolman secures the prisoner to one of the llandcufis, as hereinbefore described, and then goes in search of the second person and having captured him takes him to the box and snaps the second handcuff onto his wrist.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification, and particularly pointed out in the claims thereof.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 illustrates a patrol-box in perspective with the door partly broken away and a handcuff attached to the interior of the patrol-box by means of a chain and weight. Fig. 2 is a detail section, partly broken away, taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 1 looking toward the left in said figure. 1

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

In the drawings, 4 is a patrol-box supported upon a column 5, and 6 is the door of the patrol-box. 7 7 are chains. To one end of each of said chains is attached a handcuff 8,

and to the other end of each of said chains is attached a weight 9. Each of the chains 7 passes over the rear side-of a flanged roll 10. The rolls 1O 10 are rotatably supported upon a rod 11, fastened at its oppositeends to the patrol-box. Adjacent to the rolls 10 10 is another rod 12, parallel to the rod 1 1 and fast at its opposite ends to the patrol-box 4. Hooks 13 13 are provided in the interior of the box, upon which the handcuffs 8 8 are supported when the cuffs are not in use. In Fig. 1 one of the handcuffs is shown as supported upon its hook 13 and the other is shown as withdrawn from the box in readiness to be clasped upon the wrist of the prisoner.

The operationof the device is as follows: Assuming the handcuffs to both be hung upon their respective hooks 13 13 and the door6 of the patrol-box closed, the patrolman when he arrives at the box with his prisoner unlocks the patrol-box door, opens the same, and taking one of the handcuffs 8 from its hook 13 draws the same outwardly, causing the weight 9, attached to the chain 7, to be drawn upwardly until it is substantially in the position illustrated in Fig. 2." Any further attempt to withdraw the chain from the box will result in the weight 9 coming into contact with the roll 10 and with the rod 12, which will prevent the chain and the weight from being entirely withdrawn from the patrol-box, said weight thus constituting a lockingmember which is movable rela tively .to said patrol-box. then clasps the handcuff upon the wrist of The patrolman,

his prisoner. If he has more than one prisoner, he claspsone of the cuffs 8 to the wrist of each prisoner. As hereinbefore stated, if the patrolman captures but one prisoner he can attach him to the patrol-box by means'of the cuff and chain and then go in pursuit of another prisoner, if such there be. After at taching the prisoner to the patrol-box by means of the handcufl', chain, and Weight the patrolman telephones to the office, and the patrol-Wagon is sent to his assistance, the handcuff being unlocked by a key in the possession of one of the patrolmen Who come on the patrol-Wagon.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire by Letters Patent to secure, is-

1. In combination, a police patrol-box, a handcufl', a chain fast at one end thereof to said handcuff, and a locking member movable relatively to said patrol-box attached to the other end of said chain.

2. In combination, a police patrol-box, a handcuff, a chain fast at one end thereof to said handcuff, a Weight fast to the other end of said chain, and means to guide said chain.

In combination, a police patrol-box, a handcufl', a chain fast at one end thereof to said handcuff, a Weight fast to the other end of said chain, and a roll. journaled to rotate u on said patrol-box adapted to guide said 0 rain.

4. .In combination, a police patrol-box, a handcuff, a chain fast at one end thereof to said handcuff, a Weight fast to the other end of said chain, a roll j ournaled to rotate upon said patrol-box adapted to guide said chain, and a rod fast to said box adjacent to said roll adapted to prevent the Withdrawal of said chain and Weight from said box.

5. In combination, a police patrol-box, a handcuff, a chain fast at one end thereof to said handcuff, a Weight fast to the other end of said chain, a roll journaled to rotate upon said patrol-box adapted to guide said chain, a rod fast to said boX adjacent to said roll adapted to prevent the Withdrawal of said chain and weight from said box-and a hook fast to said boX upon Which said handcuff may be supported.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of tWo subscribing Wit.- nesses.

GEORGE V. DOHERTY.

I/Vitnesses:

CHARLES S. Goonme, ANNIE J. DAILEY. 

